"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's……" — Zadie Smith
"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a…
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
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